Joe Sepie’s

This was one of the worst PoBoy sandwich shops that ever existed! But thank the gods that it is no longer in business anymore.
That’s right everyone this place served terrible food. In fact the food was so terrible that by the looks of things the owner was busy writing fake reviews in order to offset his bad ratings. But alas it did no good, cooking up fake reviews could not hide how bad this place was.
Now they are putting up a sushi restaurant in its stead. Hopefully they don’t make the same mistakes as their predecessors.
In short a crooked business owner that posted fake reviews on Unilocal and still went out of business. Honesty is always the best policy!

Great place. Excellent food, service, and a great variety of food choices. Very reasonable prices.
I will return.

And I’m officially done with Joe Sepie’s…
I went in today and ordered my usual… the spaghetti and meatballs lunch special, which until today, was one of my favorite spaghetti plates in the area. When the food arrived, I sprinkled some parmesan cheese and red pepper flakes atop and was preparing to chow down when I noticed that the food appeared to be moving. After a fleeting moment of shock, I realized that there were what appeared to be giant weevils all over my food.
Fighting back instant nausea, I started looking for the source, as it seemed unlikely that weevils would live in a cooked spaghetti sauce. I found the colony in the red pepper flake container, where there were hundreds of them crawling around inside, indicating to me that this was not their first day on the scene. I wonder if people were inadvertently sprinkling their unhatched eggs onto their food earlier in the week? Oh god.
I call over the lady at the cash register and inform her of the situation… she takes the plate and the pepper container with a brief apology. Meanwhile, several of the large weevils take to flight and start kamikazeing into the other people sitting at the table… after smashing as many of the little buggers as we could, the lady brings out a fresh plate of spaghetti.
I was so hungry, I managed to eat most of the spaghetti, but by the time I killed those first hunger pains, my appetite was gone as I started recalling the image of all those bugs squirming around on my first plate… UGH.
I really loved Joe’s spaghetti, and pretty much ate there on a weekly basis with several of my work colleagues. They were as disgusted as I was and we’ve all agreed that it’s time to scratch Sepie’s from our list of lunchtime eateries.
I was also a little annoyed at the owner for not bothering to personally come out and see what was going on. There was no apology or concession of any kind. Now, I’m not in the restaurant business, but it seems as though a «bugs in the food» problem with one of the guests would be one of those things that, as an owner, would garner my full attention.
BOTTOM LINE: Perhaps the restaurant’s peculiar mothball aroma has a deeper mean than I originally thought… ?? Regardless, I will never eat here again.

I’ve been to Joe Sepie’s and had the spaghetti and meatballs once a week for months. It is exactly to my taste. Everything else I’ve gotten there is delicious, and before tip the bill is around twelve bucks. Yes, the manager is an awkward old curmudgeon, and he watches too much Fox News, and there’s an aroma of moth balls, but with food and prices like this I really couldn’t give a rat’s.. .

Best roast beef in town is at Joe Sepie’s. Run by a Navy SEAL with the same attention to detail as in a clandestine mission. He doesn’t buy the large but cheaper French bread but the pistolettes which taste better. He has a special dish daily but the roast beef, dressed, is the best. The poboy bread is toasted slightly so it is hot but not hard like others.

very mediocre food and a pushy proprietor. When we said the marinara was a bit too sweet we were informed we did not know real Sicilian food. While we could put up with not very good food what makes this place a nightmare is Joe himself who started his conversation with us on a partisan political note (don’t they tell NOT to do that at hospitality 101?) and then stood my our table throughout the meal to explain why his son was such a loser and not the hero his Dad was. Whew, if we wanted poor food and awkward conversation with a bore we would have gone to our Uncle Bob’s house. Just keep driving…

A hidden gem in Old Jefferson. Haven’t had a single thing here that I’ve disliked. Top quality meats used for the sandwiches and pannini’s. If you like a sweet marina, you will love his! Its the only spaghetti and meatballs I order at any restaurant.